Love Songs From Rosemary’s Baby – T.O.P.Y World Network – 1985

Om / The Power Of Love Emabs Byos Y’Rra / See Woman See Human / 1 Vortex Rosemary’s Baby was the musical arm of Ricerche Studi Babalon (RSB), the Italian ‘access point’ of the Temple Ov Psychick Youth (T.O.P.Y.), which issued tapes, booklets, bulletins and videos. Rosemary’s Baby’s main man was Pierre Luigi Zoccatelli. His […]

Psychic T.V – C.B.S acetate – 1983

Psychic T.V – Orchids Psychic T.V – Finale Psychic T.V – White Nights Psychic T.V – Ancient Lights This must be the rarest record that I own. There couldn’t of been many acetates of Psychic T.V handed out by C.B.S / Some Bizarre, and shelved in record collections. This 7″ acetate contains four songs from […]

Anarka And Poppy – The lost All The Madmen recordings – 1984 / This Bitter Lesson – 96 Tapes – 1982 / Crass – The final interview Dial House – 1984 / Blyth Power – Meanwhile Gardens – 1986 / Buld – 96 Tapes – 1986 / Louise – Chiswick Demo – 1989 / Blyth Power – Streetlevel Demo – 1984 / A Touch Of Hysteria – 96 Tapes – 1983

Anarka And Poppy – The lost All The Madmen recordings – 1984 In January 2015, Louise from the band Hysteria Ward contacted me to ask if I was interested in a load of stuff in a box. A mysterious question to which I answered “Yes I was”. On visiting I found that the box contained […]

Exit-Stance – Exit-Stance Records – 1984 / Rema Rema / Door And The Window

Esthetics Conspiracy Of Silence Exit-Stance, not the Milton Keynes punk band that released records on Mortahate and supported Conflict from time to time. The Exit-Stance that recorded these tracks, releasing them on this record via the bands own label, were from Bristol and had a sound reminiscent (actually pretty much a carbon copy) of UK […]

Rubella Ballet – Centro Iberico – 2/5/82

Rubella Ballet performance After receiving a cassette of a Rubella Ballet performance at the Centro Iberico in 1982 from Peck, originally from Colchester but now a long time Ipswich resident along with getting a large box of paperwork and photographs from Tony D to scan in for a possible project in the future, I can […]

Screaming Dead – Skull Records – 1982 / Beltane Festival / The Laila Mythology

Valley Of The Dead Schoolgirl Junkie / Lilith For this years Beltane I am placing up the debut Screaming Dead 7″single up on KYPP. Screaming Dead were a band I first read about in a copy of Rising Free fanzine, written, edited, printed and distributed in and around the Welwyn, Hitchin and Stevenage areas. The […]

Toxic Grafity: Reflections on Self-hood and Revolution

14th February, 2015 I write this on a significant date. No, not St. Valentine’s day (3id l-7ubb, ‘The Festival of Love’ in the Arabic-speaking world), but the fourth anniversary of Bahrain’s 14th February revolution, a revolution that was suppressed by a lethal combination of Saudi tanks and British political and diplomatic cover. I lived in […]

Not Just Bits Of Paper – Greg Bull / Mickey ‘Penguin’ – Part 1 – Pictures Of Pain re-release – All The Madmen records

Not Just Bits Of Paper – Greg Bull / Mickey ‘Penguin’ ISBN: 9781505703382 “We have our own words, scrawled on bits of paper smudged with some grimy hope. Angry chords waver out from the broken cassette players – and every now and again a curious prisoner comes out for a look and never returns.”  Tony […]

Ha! Ha! Funny Polis – Groucho Marxist Records – 1981 / Quango – First World Problem Records – 2013

Defiant Pose – Fight / Urban Enemies – Who Do You Hate? The Fegs – Mill Street Law And Order / X.S Discharge – Lifted Uploaded today is a four track E.P from four separate bands from around Paisley, a town slightly west of the city of Glasgow in Scotland. I do not know a […]